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Monday, November 30, 2009

Over at Ratty Ramblings they've proposed an interesting thought exercise. Choose the eight games from your current collection you'd want if you were stranded on a desert island. You get to bring along all the material you own for each game chosen. Here's my list:

AD&D - Pretty much a no-brainer for me since I have multiple campaign worlds for this rule set. If forced to chose a version I'd pick 2nd, since I can hack out the parts I don't want.

Traveller - For a Science Fiction fix, this is an easy choice.

AFMBE - If you're stuck on an island the only thing missing is zombies.

Call of Cthulhu - Hmmm two horror picks. Might not be prudent, but it's my list.

Amber - A diceless change of pace from the other games on my list.

Playing Cards - Because they're simply too flexible not to bring.

Cosmic Encounter - An awesome game to scratch the non-RPG itch.

Chess - Sometimes you can't get a group together, even on a desert island.

As for which is most important to bring, I'd say AD&D, simply because it's the system I keep going back to, and I have so much material for it. For a non-gaming luxury, I think I'd have to choose my music collection and some means of playing it.